Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish. — Benjamin Franklin Fight Copy Share Image
Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate. — Benjamin Franklin Estates Copy Share Image
Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform. — Benjamin Franklin Consumption Copy Share Image
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful. — Benjamin Franklin Action Copy Share Image
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them. — Benjamin Franklin Contentment Copy Share Image
It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin American people Copy Share Image
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man… — Benjamin Franklin Character Copy Share Image
If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about… — Benjamin Franklin Action Copy Share Image
“If you were a servant would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Then if you are… — Benjamin Franklin Servant Copy Share Image
The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive… — Benjamin Franklin Adversaries Copy Share Image
Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great.… — Benjamin Franklin Affair Copy Share Image
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes… — Benjamin Franklin Communication Copy Share Image
“but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me… — Benjamin Franklin Bible Copy Share Image
an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into… — Benjamin Franklin Bereavement Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Affair Copy Share Image
Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore… — Benjamin Franklin Action Copy Share Image
To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish. — Benjamin Franklin Devilish Copy Share Image
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